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Sunday, July 23, 2017

Just A Bunch Of Good Guys Doing God's Work ---- Epstein had told the undercover agents that he would need $10,000 to approve the coercion at the Beth Din, and $60,000 for a team of "tough guys" - one of whom was Epstein's son David, who would ensure the victim’s cooperation...

Rabbis who conspired to torture men with cattle prods lose their appeal against sentence

Defence invoked authority of Maimonides to no avail

Rabbi Mendel Epstein (Today's Rambam)

RINGLEADER & FOUNDER OF THE GET MAFIA YISROEL BELSKY IS ALREADY BITING THE DUST

An appeal by three New York rabbis convicted in 2015 of violently kidnapping men who refused to give their wives a get has been dismissed.

Rabbis
Mendel Epstein, Jay Goldstein and Binyamin Stimler were among ten
people convicted in April 2015 for conspiracy to commit kidnapping.
They sought to reduce their sentences on the grounds that their acts –
which included the application of cattle prods to victims' genitals -
could not be considered criminal because they were essentially religious
in nature.

Today their appeals were rejected by the three-strong
panel of judges, who rejected the rabbis’ assertion that their acts
could not be considered criminal because they were essentially religious
in nature.

U.S. District Judge Freda Wolfson sentenced Epstein to
10 years (120 months), Stimler to 3 years (39 months) and Goldstein to 8
years (96 months.)

Six other co-defendants also pleaded guilty before trial and were sentenced to up to 48 months.
The
rabbis believed that they had extracted $10,000 from a desperate woman
who wanted them to coerce her husband into granting a divorce. They were
in fact ensnared in a sting operation by federal agents.

Epstein
had told the undercover agents that he would need $10,000 to approve the
coercion at the Beth Din, and $60,000 for a team of "tough guys" - one
of whom was Epstein's son David, who would ensure the victim’s
cooperation.

According to evidence given at his original trial,
Epstein told the agent posing as a would-be divorcee: “What we are
going to be doing is kidnapping a guy for a couple of hours and beating
him up and torturing him and then getting him to give you the get.”

“We
take an electric cattle prod. If it can get a bull that weighs five
tons to move … You put it on certain parts of his body and in one minute
the guy will know.”

The federal agents were investigating
Goldstein and his co-defendants after a string of kidnappings, thought
to be as many as 20. In one of the cases, a husband agreed to meet the
defendants regarding an apparent job offer only to be “tied up, beaten
and shocked with a stun-gun until he agreed to give his wife a get.”

On
October 9, 2013, 8 of the conspirators, wearing Halloween masks, ski
masks, and bandanas were arrested at a warehouse in New Jersey where
they were expecting to ambush their victim.

When he was sentenced,
Epstein told the court: “Over the years, I guess, I got caught up in my
tough guy image. Truthfully, it helped me - the reputation - convince
many of these reprobates to do the right thing.”

Wolfson said
during the trial that "no one is permitted to commit acts of violence
against another," and that the harsh sentences were intended as a
deterrent to prevent others in the Orthodox Jewish community from
engaging in similar acts.

Almost immediately after the trial, reports the Washington Post,
the rabbis’ defence team lodged an appeal. One of the key planks of the
defence case was the 1993 Religious Freedom Restoration Act.

They
maintained that the crime was an essentially religious act, citing a
2015 statement by Rabbi Yitzchok Breitowitz in support of the
defendants.

The statement cites Maimonides, who wrote: “When a man
whom the law requires to be compelled to divorce his wife does not, the
court should have him beaten until he consents, at which time they
should have a get written.”

This argument was rejected by the
appeals panel: “The defendants fail to cite, nor can we identify, any
cases in which any court has allowed RFRA to shield individuals in the
commission of violent crimes…Respect for religious beliefs cannot …
trump all other legitimate, and sometimes competing, government
objectives. This appeal asks us to clarify the balance between religious
freedom and public safety. The balance here clearly lies on the side of
public safety.”

Minneapolis Police Chief Janee Harteau resigned on Friday at the request of Mayor Betsy Hodges, following days of criticism of her handling of the police shooting of Justine Damond, who was unarmed and in her pajamas at the time she was killed.

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World's Greatest Criminal Mugshots!

If Your Child Gets Raped - Go First To Your Rabbi - די באַסטערדז!

For My Israeli Readers! צפייה ביקורתית של יהדות אורתודוקסית

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Mazel Tov - Rabbi Hershel Schachter!

CLICK ABOVE PHOTO! Rabbi Moshe Feinstein states the very marriage of a gentile woman to a non observant Jew, is equivalent to an open declaration that she will not observe the precepts. This is so, because it is highly unlikely that the gentile member of such a union, will be more committed to Judaism than her remiss Jewish husband (certainly when they are living together prior to their marriage). Unlike mental or tacit negations, explains Rav Feinstein, open declarations do invalidate conversions. When such cases appear before a rabbinical court, its members actually become witnesses to an acceptance declaration that is not sincere. Therefore, it is no longer a tacit insincerity, but rather an obvious one. As such, they are forbidden to sanction the conversion. Regardless of what this Jewish court may declare, the conversion is invalid and the person is not deemed a member of the Jewish nation. In Iggros Moshe, Letters of Moshe (Yoreh De’ah, no. 157), he writes that “According to the Law, it is certain that one who converts for the sake of marriage, does not intend to keep the commandments, and is not a proselyte at all.”

The Tendler Disease in the News - Again!

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Child Molestor is Castrated in Plea Deal!

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We Are In A Time When The Sheep May No Longer Trust The Shepherds!

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Lakewood Kollel Opens In Senegal!

Scandals Tests Trust in Leadership!

Rabbi Matt Salomon Offers The Pope His Help!

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Oy! Does He Have A Headache!

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Child Abuse - Chipping Away At The Wall Of Silence!

CLICK ON BRIDGE - FOR SALE AT THE AGUDATH ISRAEL!

Rav Yosef Blau Shlita

***CLICK ON PHOTO!*** "Batei Din in our times are not effective in dealing with criminal behavior. Lacking the investigative arm of the police and having restrictive standards of testimony they can not establish guilt. When the culprit is charismatic, he can often get protégés who feel indebted to him to lie to the Beis Din. It takes years before those who have been abused as youngsters to openly face their abuser."

Kolko's Office Sign - Auctioned On eBay!

I'm a bit concerned about Ehud - he can't seem to keep his hands off of me!

Ehud asked me to pardon him!

Looks like George has been hangin' with Bill Clinton!

I look into your eyes --- and I see a rotten crook!

Did you hear the one about the rabbi & the priest? Rabbi Kolko penetrated the priest (oh father)...